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Behind the Beyond

Behind the Beyond

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Leacock, Stephen

Paperback

Humor

ISBN10: 1535265590
ISBN13: 9781535265591
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 6 2016
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
A collection containing a parody on Problem Plays, as well as humorous anecdotes from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock.Extract: The curtain rises, disclosing the ushers of the theater still moving up and down the aisles. Cries of Program! Program! are heard. There is a buzz of brilliant conversation, illuminated with flashes of opera glasses and the rattle of expensive jewelry.Then suddenly, almost unexpectedly, in fact just as if done, so to speak, by machinery, the lights all over the theater, except on the stage, are extinguished. Absolute silence falls. Here and there is heard the crackle of a shirt front. But there is no other sound.In this expectant hush, a man in a check tweed suit walks on the stage: only one man, one single man. Because if he had been accompanied by a chorus, that would have been a burlesque; if four citizens in togas had been with him, that would have been Shakespeare; if two Russian soldiers had walked after him, that would have been melodrama. But this is none of these. This is a problem play. So he steps in alone, all alone, and with that absolute finish of step, that ability to walk as if, --how can one express it?--as if he were walking, that betrays the finished actor

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